dang that must suck that someone else used what they created without them allowing it

What kind of advice do you think decision makers are getting when half the guys in the room bet their mortgages on strikes happening 36 hours from now

"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution, the four people said." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

probably not a good idea to give a bunch of warmongers the financial incentive to assassinate a world leader

Hundreds packed into Chicago's Federal Plaza this evening in protest of the U.S.-Israeli massacre in Iran.

Terrible flashbacks to that first hospital bombing in Gaza.

We launched an unprovoked attack on another nation, killing their leader. Imagine if another country attacked us unprovoked bcuz we have nukes & are the only country to have ever nuked an enemy, & our leader is so unstable he can’t be trusted w/ them — and killed him? Fundamentally unacceptable.

more of this please

Welcome to future history books, rando Mar-a-Lago shitbag

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

We need to ban these markets.

For the first time in Gallup history — More Americans sympathize with Palestinians in the “Middle East Situation” than with Israelis. 41% Palestinians (+8) 36% Israelis (-10) Democrats: Palestinians +48 Independents: Palestinians +11 Ages 18-34: Palestinians +30 Ages 35-54: Palestinians +18

I want Democrats to start talking about prosecuting Kalshi and Polymarket out of existence and charging their executives for the crimes they are committing every day.

BREAKING: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, Iranian state media reports.

One of my senators (D) went on TV and framed the problem with Trump's decision to launch an unprovoked assault on another country as entirely about process. She agrees with the carnage, she just wishes she would have been consulted about it first. Sorry to be a bit bummed out by that, I guess.

It sucks being the citizen of a pariah state

In The Piss Tank Over The Sea

end of empire stuff

I wonder if a hard-line successor will assume power and further destabilize the region just like every other time this has happened

The US and Israel reportedly slaughtered twenty volleyball players at a sports hall today in southern Iran. Self-defense, they call it. modern.az/en/dunya/575...

We have some genuinely anti-war Democrats but Democratic leadership has been pro-war for as long as I can remember. It's genuinely depressing and horrifying.

jeez

These people are so silly. Actually the Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians love being at the whim of the only Jewish state, they love it when their homes are demolished, they love it when their crops are destroyed, they love it when airstrikes bear down on them

look at the wisdom of my crowds dawg

"Congress should have to vote to authorize wars" is one of those things that's overwhelmingly popular except for among the people who actually have the power to make it happen.

Fell For It HOF inductee and Steve Kornacki's Waluigi Benny Johnson

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

if you think polymarket bets on war are bad, wait til you find out how many in Congress are invested in defense contractors

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.

Exactly. Not cowardice. Agreement.

A strike in Iran hit a Girls school in Manib with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting more than 80, including children, were killed. This strike was geolocated by researchers including @ntabrizy.bsky.social , @chrisosieck.bsky.social and @annonemo.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/chri...

Insane that this has to be said but I love my Muslim, Jewish, and Christian friends no matter the atrocities committed by the governments of Israel, United States, and Iran. We're gonna get through this nightmare together.

The day before starting a war with Iran, the Secretary of Defense was focused on removing trans scouters from the Boy Scouts.

You heard it here first, schoolgirls are military targets

Okay then man, come back and take that vote then that’s what Congress is for!

this is what Republicans and some Democrats are cheerleading — they better hope hell isn’t real

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Jasmine Crockett’s website still has this up.

If I see one more politician elevate the safety of soldiers over the safety of innocent civilian families, I’m gonna lose it

It's refreshing -- startling, even -- to have your hometown mayor speak with such clarity and compassion.

Sometimes the problem is just the actual atrocity, not the bank shot hypothetical.

By the way when you see reports about how Israelis are going to bomb shelters, you should keep in mind that the vast majority of Palestinian *citizens* of Israel (in the 1948 territories, not the oPT) do not have a single bomb shelter nearby due to the apartheid system Israel has implemented.

Flattened the schools in Palestine so now they’re working on Iran. Depraved and criminal.

This is a crisis moment, and any Democratic leader who won’t step up should be asking why they’re in the role. The rest of us should be asking why we let them stay there.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

hey @chrislhayes.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social any thoughts on your network bringing on coup merchant John Bolton during this illegal war coverage?

We genuinely need to burn the entirety of establishment corporate journalism to the fucking ground apologies to the like six people these networks employ that aren't fucking corporatist ghouls